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Public Advertiser (22 April 1763) [ Practices ]
… too dear, he may regale full as well, and at much easier Rate, over a Bottle of Humble Port: If the Reckonings at Arthur's . Almack's , and the St. Alban's , swell too high for his Lordship's Pocket, there are many a Tavern-keepers, who will salute him at parting with a - Very welcome, Sir - at a Quarter the Expence. The Coal-heaver, on the al contrary, is under a Necessity of keeping up on the Strength of his Back …
Tea | Conviviality | Commodities
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Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… materials such as mahogany embellished with brass inlay. Although such tea-tables were expensive, they were a central part of the polite equipment of tea service, alongside porcelain teacups and slop bowls, silver teapots and teaspoons, and … importantly reflected women’s taste and patterns of consumption, and in this way they were distinctive. 2 2 . Ann Martin, ‘Tea Tables Overturned: Rituals of Power and Place in Colonial America’, in Furnishing the Eighteenth Century: … public culture in the period, such as coffeehouses and clubs. Accordingly Addison says: ‘ I would therefore in a very particular Manner recommend these my Speculations to all well-regulated Families, that set apart an Hour in every Morning …
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Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
Consumption | Domesticity | Femininity | Slave trade | Tea | Tea-table
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